Best Alibis Poems

Autumn’s cool breeze is over, girl
The leaves have danced their last
Memories of you drip out the edges
Of swollen eyes tied to our past
This chapter will never be read aloud
I doubt that others will ever know
We’d moved beyond the simple surface
You were so close to touching...

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Beauty cries in love's demise, when you make your alibis.
All my sadness fills my eyes, when you make your alibis.

Caring thoughts your voice implies, but the words are only lies
still you sing sweet lullabies, when you make your alibis.

Broken hearts will soon arise, different song...

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I kept drinking in the words from your lips 
Over and over again I kept taking sips 

Your utterances I gobbled up and ate every crumb
The taste was so sweet I licked my fingers and thumb 

For your words I had a voracious appetite 
I...

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All emphasized in society's vise pounds

false perceptions that comfort some lives

allowing them to safely hide in boxed alibis

where their dreamy feelings lay to perhaps die.



... CayCay
September 15, 2019
Original Poem:  Lonely World
Arbitrium Divisa 4 Contest
Gregory R. Barden...

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His friendship was the one I held dear.
He said he was the one I never had to fear.

The two years we were together before we were wed,
Were not so bad, truth be said.

Then one day out of the blue,
He was no longer the man I...

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Bring your alibis on board
Your defense is death
And your life is limber 
Time terminates your time here
As the earth swallows you up
In your shallow grave
I’m digging for dirt
To place over your concocted coffin...

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alibis are for the guilty ones
those who take too long to think
for they are liars and frauds

truth tellers do not have to pause
or hesitate
for the truth comes out easily

they do not have to worry about alibis either
unless they are also murderers or thieves...

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I scored my life story;
Read it in a book;
All those stories and lies;
People purposed alibis;

12/17/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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